My learnings & Resources
On a mission to liberate Public Domain Kannada books
What a liberation it would be to be able to say which book is really out in public domain for a language! This could unlock a magic wand to unleash & liberate knowledge for the larger public. We are on such a #digitization #mission dedicated to #Kannada. Let us...
Fix a “E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/http could not be found.” error
Following is an error encountered on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS $ sudo apt-get update E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/http could not be found. This can be easily fixed by installing apt-transport-https as follows. sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
Unable to read Kannada on Kindle – Ask for Language Support, sign the petition
I'm unable to read Kannada books on Kindle. In Kindle Android app, I see the index rendering properly in Kannada but the actual content looks broken. (see the image). This is not something big for a multinational such as Amazon to fix. Urge them to fix these for all...
QRCode as a Souvenir for Socio-Economic Impact around Art, History & Culture
My presentation from WikiConference India 2016
IEG: How did we do it? IA – Commons – Wiki Source for Kannada Books
This gif shows how our team contributed to Internet Archive, Wiki Commons and Kannada Wikisource by uploading out of copyright books from DLI and OUDL libraries effectivly to ensure they are reachable to larger audience round the clock. GIF contributed by...
Making Kannada Books available on IA – A Quick WikiMeetup with ITFC team
View Making Kannada Books available on IA - A Quick WikiMeetup with ITFC team on Hackpad.
IEG: Copying books from Internet Archive to Wiki Commons & Kn Wikisource
View Kannada Wikisource & Pustaka Sanchaya Activities - Walk through on Hackpad.
Uploading OUT_OF_COPYRIGHT Books to Internet Archive & Wiki Projects
View Uploading OUT_OF_COPYRIGHT Books to Internet Archive & Wiki Projects on Hackpad.
IEG: Project status updates – February
Localized the project page for Kannada Wiki for better collaboration with Community. ಸದಸ್ಯ:Omshivaprakash/ಯೋಜನೆಗಳು/ಕನ್ನಡ_ವಿಕಿಮೀಡಿಯ_ಯೋಜನೆಗಳನ್ನು_ಡಿಜಿಟಲ್_ಲೈಬ್ರರಿಗಳೊಂದಿಗೆ_ಬೆಳಸುವುದು Crowd sourcing project pages reviewed to fix the flow. Requested community members &...
IEG: Pustaka Sanchaya 1st Meetup- Activity Log
View IEG: Pustaka Sanchaya 1st Meetup- Activities on Hackpad.
Kannada l10n for WordPress
I will keep this post updated with all info needed to participate in l10n team activities for Wordpress in Kannada. View >l10n for Wordpress (kn) on Hackpad.
IEG For Kannada Wikipedia
About an year ago, we found that it is almost becoming difficult/worse to search the Kannada books on DLI (Digital Library Of India) and OUDL (Osmania University Digital Library). Reasons: Index found in these digital libraries used latin letters for book names i.e....
Fix: expr: syntax error while running rkhunter
If you're trying to run rkhunter check on your server and finding expr: syntax error for all binaries, it might be due to outdated file properties database. Run the following command to fix it: rkhunter --propupd --update After updating the file properties database,...
Help for Editing Urdu Wikipedia
If you wish to contribute back to this list, please send me a personal message from the contact page to be added as a contributor on hackpad. View Editing Urdu Wikipedia on Hackpad.
Zimbra Desktop 7.2.7 not loading on Ubuntu 15.04
Zimbra desktop installation on my system was prompting me to upgrade the installation to the latest 7.2.7 version. I downloaded the installer (zdesktop_7_2_7_ga_b12059_20150629062326_linux_i686.tgz) from Zimbra and found that it was not working. For couple of weeks...
Fixing Eclipse: Unrecognized VM option ‘MaxPermSize=256m’
Having trouble getting eclipse loaded on your linux machines? Try the following troubleshooting methods to get that sorted. First to understand the complete issue, run the eclipse command on your terminal as follows: $ eclipse Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS:...
VMWare Workstation 11 can not be installed under Ubuntu 15.04
VMWare communities thread again gives a quick for this issue here: Find the solution below: Step 1: log in as root (e.g. sudo -s) Step 2: Enter your Root password. Step 3: Enter these commands: curl https://pastie.org/pastes/9934018/download -o...
Fixed: Lua and other errors on Kannada Wikipedia Time templates
Problem statement 1: "Lua error in Module:TimeAgo at line 60: attempt to perform arithmetic on a string value" The above error was prominent across many Infobox templates used on Kannada wikipedia where the different of date of birth and the current date was supposed...
Datawrapper: Mails not delivered
I use my own instance of DataWrapper (An open source data visualization platform helping everyone to create simple, correct and embeddable charts in minutes. https://datawrapper.de) to quickly build some data visualizations. For some strange reason, my login's stopped...
Technology for Conserving Language: Presented at Kannada Sahitya Sammelana
81th Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana (Jan 31st - 3rd Feb) happening here in Shravana Belagola, Hasana District, Karnataka. I was fortunate to have got invited to talk about Information technology for Language chaired by Dr. Chidananda Gowda. Dr. U.B Pavanaja...
Conserving Linguistic Heritage the FOSS way
Presentation on https://vachana.sanchaya.net to digitize and build linguistic research tool for Kannada. Presented at Swatantra 2014 - Fifth International Free Software Conference, Kerala on 19th December 2014. Event Page:...
Android Fix: Adb finds device but not fastboot
I was trying to flash my nexus 7 (2012) with Android L but failed to do so as fastboot couldn't find my devices. I thought it was Multirom etc which I had on my device causing problem. It turned out that my ubuntu was unable to identify the device specifically for...
Error: Couldn’t load XPCOM Zimbra Desktop
Zimbra desktop installation on a brand new installation of Ubuntu/Linux mint 64 bit release always fails (Tried on Ubuntu 14.04/14.10/Linux Mint 17 etc) due to the lack of 32 bit architecture support. I confirmed it by running Zimbra desktop with ia32-libs added to...
Add 32bit package support for Debian/Ubuntu/Mint
Many applications which look for 32bit packages on your Debian/Ubuntu/Mint packages would need ia32-libs packages. Earlier it was possible to get this package installed and later on it has been removed from all distributions. The best way to get back the 32bit package...
Creative Commons & Allama
A late night chat with Shri NAM Ismail (Prajavani) gives me a chance to look at creative commons from Vachana's point of view. For few of my questions and observations on Creative Commons adoption in India here is what he had to say: "If you can understand allama then...
Let’s Learn Together!
I spend time exploring FOSS solutions and try to build language tech for #Kannada. If you have an interesting problem, feel free to share it with me. We can try solving those use cases in collaboration.
You can also find my other community collaboration work at https://sanchaya.org & https://sanchifoundation.org